The author of this story—which first appeared in the Polish magazine Kultura published in Paris—is at present serving a five-year term at forced labor somewhere in the Soviet Union. He was recently sentenced together with another Russian writer, Abram Tertz. …
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus. Knopf. 272 pp. $4.00. By comparison with the work of men like Koestler, Silone and Orwell, Albert Camus’ writing has always seemed to me somewhat grandiose and porous. He lacked Koestler’s capacity for …
I am setting down the following melancholy reflections not with any hope of a remedy, but because the matter is important and nobody else seems to be saying it. In many ways literature has, in this century, become a minor …
How did Western media accounts transform China’s Xinjiang region from an obscure, exotic district into a hotbed of terrorism?
For Willis, rock was sex, which was Freud, which was Marx, which was labor, which was politics and therefore a reason to vote or protest.
The house in Sister Wives looks less like the home of a fundamentalist family than a functional commune.
This year Gulf Labor’s newly formed direct-action wing—the Global Ultra Luxury Faction—has created a PR nightmare for the Guggenheim.
Did Pussy Riot’s protest change the course of Russian history, or merely make its members famous abroad?
How did the largest city in the United States become the most prone to flooding?
Today’s wealth and employment gaps shatter the myth of a post-racial America.
What we have observed in Ukraine confirms that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is irredeemable.
Today, the top banks are larger than they were before the crisis and engage in many of the same behaviors that led to the financial meltdown. How can we end “too big to fail” once and for all?
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There are many policies that can reduce inequality, but there is none as straightforward conceptually and as difficult politically as full employment.
After convicting Occupy activist Cecily McMillan of felony assault on a police officer on May 5, twelve jurors walked into the light and discovered that they had, perhaps, condemned the twenty-five-year-old to turning thirty on Rikers Island. “Most just wanted …
